Blockinmanagement A T Jarmoszko, Frank Lefley, Royal Holloway, J. Bagby, Christian Ploberger
{"title":"Evaluating Sustainability and Greening Methods: A Conceptual Model for Information Technology Management","authors":"Blockinmanagement A T Jarmoszko, Frank Lefley, Royal Holloway, J. Bagby, Christian Ploberger","doi":"10.4018/jal.2013070101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jal.2013070101","url":null,"abstract":"Recently much has been written about sustainability and greening and the issue is likely to continue to resurface on the agendas of decision makers. This paper addresses one aspect of the topic: that of sustainability and greening through information technology management. The authors review existing research and publications on the topic and conclude that while much research is available on methods of enhancing sustainability and greening, less exists on guidelines to help gauge success or failure of these methods. To help alleviate this shortcoming, the authors propose a model-called the Greening through Information Technology Model GITM-based on the framework of Capability Maturity Model.","PeriodicalId":443888,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Appl. Logist.","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124374985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Evaluate Capital Projects that Offer Environmental/Carbon Reduction Benefits","authors":"F. Lefley, Joseph Sarkis","doi":"10.4018/jal.2013070102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jal.2013070102","url":null,"abstract":"In many cases, projects that have strong environmental / carbon reduction benefits may be neglected due to biases associated with traditional project appraisal approaches. To reduce the level of rejections for such projects, the authors apply an innovative methodology, the financial appraisal profile FAP model. FAP is a normative model that seeks to address some of the issues and limitations posed by standard appraisal and evaluation approaches. By making the right decision in the first place and involving senior managers in the appraisal process, the organisation is better placed to achieve project success. The adoption of a management team approach to investment appraisals will not only enhance the information base but will also result in greater managerial commitment to a project. By adopting the FAP model with the inclusion of an environmental assessment in the form the 'environmental score index', will help focus top management on an increasingly important corporate strategy issue. An illustrative case study is used to outline the important aspects of this new approach. The paper concludes that this approach fills a gap in the environmental / carbon reduction investment literature, where there is a paucity of comprehensive, structured, and transparent methodologies that can prove acceptable to management decision-makers from a variety of functions and viewpoints. Keywords: Carbon Reduction, Environmental Score Index, Environmental Sustainability, Financial Appraisal Profile FAP Model, Investment Appraisal","PeriodicalId":443888,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Appl. Logist.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124174839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Global Hyperconnectivity and Increased Smartphone Usage on the Delivery and Structure of IT Organizsation in Transport Logistics","authors":"M. Linke","doi":"10.4018/jal.2013040102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jal.2013040102","url":null,"abstract":"Improved technical IT possibilities in terms of performance, availability, usability, as well as cheaper prices through mass production on a worldwide basis, led to a global, multiconnected, so called 'hyperconnected' market, of people, goods, ideas and techniques. This situation results in higher demands and a higher customer expectation on a B2B and B2C level and therefore for enhanced logistics challenges especially for Courier, Express & Parcel CEP providers worldwide and their respect IT organisations. Within the IT realm of this momentum Smartphones, 'Apps' and Cloud Computing seem to increase the complexity within logistics IT departments in the first place. From a business point of view the extension of variabilized outsourcing and outtasking of defined parts of the overall value chain could be seen as new influence factors, especially in mature CEP markets. Enterprise Architecture Management EAM seems to be one auxiliary to manage this new complexity, by combining the view on the business processes, as well as the technical dimension of the logistics provide","PeriodicalId":443888,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Appl. Logist.","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116672126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing Static and Dynamic Policies for Vehicle Routing Problems with Backhauling and Dynamic Customer Demands","authors":"S. Mitra","doi":"10.4018/jal.2013040101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jal.2013040101","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic vehicle routing problems with backhauling (VRPB), although important, have attracted little attention in the literature. Dynamic VRPB is more complex than dynamic vehicle routing problems (VRP) without backhauling, and since VRP without backhauling is a special case of VRPB, models and algorithms for dynamic VRPB can easily be adapted for dynamic VRP. In this paper, the author compared between static and dynamic policies for solving VRPB with dynamic occurrences of customer delivery and pickup demands. They developed heuristic algorithms for medium-sized problems under static and dynamic policies. Although dynamic policies are always at least as good as static policies, the author observed from numerical experimentations that static policies perform relatively well for low degrees of dynamism (dod). On the other hand, dynamic policies are expected to perform significantly better than static policies for high dod and early availabilities of dynamic customer delivery and pickup demand information. The author concludes the paper by providing directions for future research on dynamic VRPB.","PeriodicalId":443888,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Appl. Logist.","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128008587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integration of Knowledge Management Approach to the Planning Stage of Freight Villages: Towards Sustainable Development","authors":"Jiani Wu, H. Haasis","doi":"10.4018/jal.2013040104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jal.2013040104","url":null,"abstract":"Freight village FV is a logistics phenomenon with broad economic, social and environmental consequences. A well organized and knowledge-based planning process is critical to realize sustainable development of FVs, due to its capability to avoid negative phenomena e.g., unnecessary FV projects, high vacancy rates, unsuitable sites, disturbance to local residents, air and water pollutions from the beginning. Sustainability-oriented FV planning depends largely on the identification, interpretation, creation and use of involved knowledge. Knowledge management KM is a planned, structured approach of systematically and actively managing knowledge for achieving the expected objectives. Thus, this paper aims at integrating KM approach to FVs planning stage for sustainable development. This paper starts with the research background. Then, it proposes a schema for FVs planning steps towards sustainable development. In particular, \"sense-making KM model\" is used as a guide for FVs planning process following the route: sense making-knowledge creation-decision making.","PeriodicalId":443888,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Appl. Logist.","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125621410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic Risk Assessment by Communicating Objects in Supply Chain of Chemicals","authors":"O. Gaci, H. Mathieu, J. Deutsch, L. Gomez","doi":"10.4018/jal.2013040103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jal.2013040103","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a wireless sensor network is deployed to improve the security of goods, environment and persons along a supply chain manipulating chemicals in the European Union. Pallets are equipped with a RFID tag and a set of sensors that monitor in real-time the environment state. By defining and monitoring constraints that must satisfy pallet environments, a real-time risk assessment is proposed. Then, sensors send accident risks in case of unusual values to a centralized software. Supply chain actors responsible for goods are thus contacted and in parallel emergency services are contacted to plan and organize their interventions.","PeriodicalId":443888,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Appl. Logist.","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125796088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy Management System for Domestic Electrical Appliances","authors":"K. Chao, N. Shah, Raymond Farmer, Adriana Matei","doi":"10.4018/JAL.2012100104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/JAL.2012100104","url":null,"abstract":"A variety of energy management systems are currently available for domestic domain, and many are concerned with real-time energy consumption monitoring and display of statistical and real time data of energy consumption. Although these systems play a crucial role in providing a detailed picture of energy consumption in home environment and contribute to influencing energy consumption behavior, households are required to then take appropriate measures to reduce energy consumption. Some energy management systems provide energy saving tips but they do not take into account households' profiles and energy consumption of home appliances. To generate an effective and real time appliance level advice on energy consumption, the system must be able to cope with a large volume of data. The proposed system addresses this issue by taking into account household profiles and energy consumption of domestic electrical appliances. The system also uses an approach based on functional data services to deal with the challenge of processing a large volume of data in real time.","PeriodicalId":443888,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Appl. Logist.","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114957785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybrid Multi-Objective Methods to Solve Reentrant Shops","authors":"Frédéric Dugardin, F. Yalaoui, L. Amodeo","doi":"10.4018/jal.2012100102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jal.2012100102","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the multi-objective scheduling of a reentrant hybrid flow shop. This type of shop is composed of several stages made of several identical parallel machines. When a task has to be processed on a stage, it is assigned to the machine with the smallest workload. This problem shows a reentrant structure: each task must be processed several times at each stage. In this paper, this problem is solved by minimizing two objectives: the makespan maximum completion time of the jobs and the total tardiness of the tasks. A new method is improved with different local searches: Adjacent and Non Adjacent Pairwise Interchange, Extract and Backward-Shifted Reinsertion, and Extract and Forward-Shifted Reinsertion. Every local search is tuned with statistical method design of experiment and the best one is worked out. This method is compared with the best one in several instances. The results involve three different measures.","PeriodicalId":443888,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Appl. Logist.","volume":"14 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116931416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Customer Perceptions on Service Satisfaction with Third Party Logistics (3PL) Service","authors":"S. Moschuris, George F. Velis","doi":"10.4018/jal.2012100103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jal.2012100103","url":null,"abstract":"Today, more firms are focusing on core competencies and turning to external specialists Third Party Logistics-3PLs for sophisticated logistics solutions. The 3PL service industry is characterized by customer relationships that can extend over several years, involving multiple instances of service delivery. Customers' satisfaction level has a profound impact on attracting new customers and customer retention. This research investigates customer perceptions regarding the service offered by a medium-sized 3PL operating in Greece. Results indicate that customers are satisfied with the outfit of personnel, adequacy of knowledge, speed of service, quality of services offered, and politeness of personnel at the point of sales as well as during the delivery. The major problem stated by the respondents was the long hold on time at the call center, which causes intensity and confusion among the customers.","PeriodicalId":443888,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Appl. Logist.","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121917795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Logistic Planning with Nonlinear Goal Programming Models in Spreadsheets","authors":"K. Strang","doi":"10.4018/jal.2012100101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jal.2012100101","url":null,"abstract":"This is a case study of a coal mining company to demonstrate how algebra principles and nonlinear goal programming can be applied for logistics planning using spreadsheet software. The paper asserts that mathematical programming techniques are not well-accepted by managers because the models are difficult to understand due to abstract notational conventions yet alternative commercial software is inflexible and sometimes inaccurate. The relevant operations research literature was reviewed, highlighting techniques applicable for analyzing quantitative and qualitative logistics data. A practical supply-demand transportation logistics model was built which included determinist constraints and stochastic costing theories, while applying both linear and nonlinear calculus slope principles. The formulae were explained in algebraic standard form citing corresponding spreadsheet functions. The logistics problem was optimized, illustrating how 6 mining sites could supply 4 countries with sufficient coal to meet different electricity demand levels, surpassing the break-even goal and projecting annual revenue of over $34 billion.","PeriodicalId":443888,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Appl. Logist.","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130134622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}